Selection with mouse is not working

[florianrusch]

Text selection via mouse is not working.

I'm currently using viddy 1.1.2-VERGEN_IDEMPOTENT_OUTPUT installed via brew on Mac within iterm.

Also the workaround with hitting Space or s doesn't work for me. The only thing that is working is doing a Right click on the string I want to copy and then select Copy from the context menu.

[sachaos]

@florianrusch Thank you for reporting.

mac & iterm.

I'm using mac & iterm, but it works fine.

The only thing that is working is doing a Right click on the string I want to copy and then select Copy from the context menu.

What is the expected behavior? Can you copy the text by that operation (right click & select copy from the context menu)?

[BapRx]

Hello, I have the same issue. I just tested previous versions and it never worked after the rust rewrite, the last working version for me is 0.4.0.

The expected behavior was:

• double click a string while viddy is running
• the text is highlighted (selected)
• the text is copied to the clipboard (because iterm is configured as "Copy on select")

An yes it is possible to copy the text from the context menu but only the selected word instead of a custom selection.

[sachaos]

@florianrusch @BapRx I've investigated this problem. I think it is difficult to enable selecting mouse because now viddy is capturing all mouse behavior. There are 2 solutions.

1. Implement select and copy.
2. Implement feature to copy all text. (by pressing y y)

1 is difficult to implement, but 2 is not difficult, it is easy to implement. How do you think? The second solution can solve your problems?

[BapRx]

Thanks for looking into it, I found a workaround on iTerm2 which would be even easier than solution 2: Hold option key then select the text with your mouse. I don't know if the issue is the same on other terminals and if a similar workaround exist.

It's easy enough for me to be a solution without implementing select and copy.

[florianrusch]

@BapRx thanks for mentioning the workaround. It also works for me 🙂

Of course from a UX perspective it would be intuitive to just click, select and copy via CMD + C or yy. Personally, I wouldn't think that holding the ALT (option key) could work. But I fully agree with you, @BapRx, that it makes no sense to put in any effort if the user base affected by this problem is very small. Therefore, for me it would also be more of a "nice-2-have".

Many thanks for the investigations, @sachaos & @BapRx.

@sachaos please feel free to close this issue, if you want.

[sachaos]

Thank you @BapRx & @florianrusch I'll close this issue. I want to think about "copy all" feature, so I'll create new issue for that.